Improvement in making eyelets



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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ILLIAM R. LANDFEAR, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIM SELF ANDDAVID WHITTEMORE, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING EYELET'S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,421, dated June 5,1866.

To all whom t may concern Beit known that I, WILLIAM R. LANDEEAR, of thecity and county of Hartford, aud State of Connecticut, have made a newand Yuseful Invention for Decapitating Eyelet-Blanks for Oqnverting theminto Eyelets 5 and I do hereby dcclare the same to be fully described inthe following specification and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, in Which- Figurel is a top view, Fig. 2 a bottom view, andFig. 3 an edge elevation, of it. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of theeyelet-carrier. Fig. 5 is vertical section of an eyelet-blank as itappears before being decapitated. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of suchblank as it appears after decapitation.

In the said drawings, A represents a lever having a socket, a, made init for holding the blank. This socket goes through the lever, in orderthat when the blank is placed in the socket the head ofthe blank, orthat part which is to be removed, may extend through and bevond thesocket, so as to be cut oft' by a knife, B, when the lever is moved, soas to cause the knife to cutacross the smaller end of the socket. Boththe lever and knife are connected with a supportingplate, O, and theyare arranged thereon in manner as represented, b being the fulcrum ofthe lever. The knife is parallel to the plate, and there is a space, c,between such plate and the knife for the lever to move in. Thecutting-edge of the knife is so arranged as to cause it to cut with adrawing stroke while itnay be in action on the eyelet-blauk The plateserves to prevent the eyelet-blank from being thrown out of the socketwhile such blank may be in the act of being decapitated.

It is intended for the above to constitute part of a machine for makingeyelets, the remainder of such machine serving to make the eyelet-blankand introduce it into the socket.

Instead of the knife being stationary and the lever being movablerelatively to it, the knife vmay be movable relatively to the lever, andinstead of the lever being used a slide plate socketed like the levermay be employed as a substitute or equivalent.

In using the mechanism, an eyelet-blank is to be placed" in the socket,and with the head ofthe blank extending beyond thc socket, after whichthe lever is to be moved so as to carry the head against the knife andcause the latter to remove or cutoff' the projecting part or head of theblank.

I claim- The combination and arrangement of the lever or its equivalent,the socket, and the knife, or the same and the supporting-plate, thesame being to operate substantially in manner and for the purpose as setforth.

WM. R. LANDFEAR.

